MIRIDJ3. 297 



in. company wifcli dolobratus, ia July, and his been found afc Wey- 

 bridge, Elthain, &c. The developed form, especially of the ? , is 

 somewhat scarce. 



Species 3. LOPOMORPHUS DOLOBRATUS. 



CIMEX DOLOBIIATUS, Lin. S. N. v, 730, 103 (1767); Scop. Eat. Cam. 135, 



392 (17G3) ; Schrank, Enum. 285, 549 (1781). 

 MIRIS ABBREVIATES, Wolff, Ic. Cini. 11G, 110, p. 11, fig. 110, 0-/(1800). 



LATERALIS, Wolff, Ic. Cim. 115, 109, p. 11, fig. 109, a b (1800) 



Fab. S. R. 254, 3 (1803). 



DOLOBRATUS, Fab. S. R. 253, 1 (1803) ; Fall. Hem. Suec. i, 128, 1 



(1829) ; Hahn, Wanz. ii, 75, fig. 160 (1831) ; Zett. 

 Ins. Lap. 280, 1 (1839) ; Schill. Arb. tind Veriind. 52 

 (1845) ; Flor t Rliyn. Liv. i, 437, 10 (1860). 

 PIIYTOCORIS DOLOBRATUS, Bitrm. Handb. ii, 267, 5 (1835). 

 LOPUS H. Schf. Wanz. iii, 45, figs. 261 & 262 (1836) ; 



Meyer, Caps. 38, 1 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 

 88, 1 (1848); Kirschb. Caps. 36, 11 (1855). 

 LEPTOPTERNA DOLOBRATA, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 244 (1861). 



$ , in developed examples reddish-orange, brownish -yellow, or dusky 

 yellow. Somewhat more thickly clothed, and the hairs longer 

 than io.ferrugatus. 



Head black ; Crown with two streaks on the inside of tho eyes, 

 terminating at the base of the antenniferous processes, a short line 

 down the centre of the clypeus, and two spots at the back of the head, 

 clear yellow ; Face black ; the central lobe margined with, and the 

 side ]obes in front, yellowish. Antennae black, as long as the body ; 

 1st joint cylindrical, as long as the pronotum, gently swelled out on 

 the inside beyond the base and somewhat curved ; 2nd cylindrical, 

 3 times the length of the 1st ; 3rd more than half the length of the 

 2nd ; 4th half the length of the 3rd. 



Thorax. Pronotum black ; a somewhat fusiform central line ex- 

 panding into a wider triangular spot anteriorly, the centre of the 

 anterior margin, and the sides (broadest at the hinder angles) yellow. 

 Scutellum black, a central line generally widened at the depression 

 into a triangular patch which extends to the apex, yellow. Elytra : 



